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Invite or not-- if you applied with an interesting demo or product, and you're able to share it, please do. Would love to see what's cooking.
If you have a product close to launch, consider applying to the pitch competition at the startup conference next month. We are always looking for the best startups to feature on stage.
Invitations will be sent out by midnight PT.
Is an email sent in both the cases? (selected & not selected)
Thank you for applying to Y Combinator; however, your startup was not selected to interview for the upcoming Y Combinator batch. We carefully reviewed thousands of applications and since there's a limit on the number of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot of promising groups. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the interview threshold ends up getting accepted to YC. That means there are surely other good groups that fall just below the threshold. Furthermore, a much smaller percentage of late applications are invited for interviews.
Unfortunately we can't give you individual feedback about your application. This page explains why: http://ycombinator.com/whynot/
We sincerely hope and encourage you to reapply for the next batch. Applying multiple times in no way counts against you and a surprisingly large number of companies are funded after applying more than once.
We're trying to get better at this, but it's practically certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups. If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.
Invite or not-- if you applied with an interesting demo or product, and you're able to share it, please do. Would love to see what's cooking.
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Is an email sent in both the cases? (selected & not selected)
Subject: Your Y Combinator Application Thank you for applying to Y Combinator; however, your startup was not selected to interview for the upcoming Y Combinator batch. We carefully reviewed thousands of applications and since there's a limit on the number of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot of promising groups. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the interview threshol…
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Subject: Your Y Combinator Application Thank you for applying to Y Combinator; however, your startup was not selected to interview for the upcoming Y Combinator batch. We carefully reviewed thousands of applications and since there's a limit on the number of startups we can interview in person, we had to turn away a lot of promising groups. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the interview threshol…
Did you get this today? Or is this just copied and pasted from online?
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Live beta: http://voia.travel | We are live testing and making improvements every day. Can you tell what it is and how it works? Would love to have feedback.
I love the sign-up dialog you guys have, nice little details. The biggest problem I see is the color palette being too similar to that of Airbnb. Maybe it's just the designer in me recognizing it, but it could be a problem for your brand since you're in a similar space.